On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 12:54:57PM +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote.. > Rich Teer wrote: > >>I'm happy to inform that the ZFS file system is now part of the FreeBSD > >>operating system. ZFS is available in the HEAD branch and will be > >>available in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE as an experimental feature. > >> > > > >This is fantastic news! At the risk of raking over ye olde arguments, > >as the old saying goes: "Dual licensing? We don't need no stinkeen > >dual licensing!". :-) > > > > > First of all, thanks a lot for all the hard work of both the FreeBSD > developers as the ZFS developers. I can't wait to give it a go. > > That leads me to one question though: Why is *BSD able to bring it into > the OS as where Linux has licensing problems with the CDDL? AFAIK Linux > users can only run it in userland mode and not in kernel mode because of > the licenses. My guess(!) is that they do not want non-GPL-ed code in the standard kernel. -- Wilko Bulte wilko_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Sat Apr 07 2007 - 12:18:25 UTC
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